Short-writing the most easie, exact, lineal and speedy method that hath ever been obtained or taught. Composed by Theophilus Metcalfe, author and professor of the said art. The fifty-fifth edition. The copper cuts having been newly corrected, with a new table for shortning of words. Which book is able to make the practitioner perfect without a teacher. As many hundreds in this city, and elsewhere, that are able to write sermons word for word, can from their own experience testifie. A young man that lately lived in Cornhill, learned so well by this book, that he wrote out all the Bible in this character

People / Organizations

• Theophilus Metcalfe (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for Edmund Parker, at the Bible and Crown in Lombard-Street, [1721]

Publication year

1721

ESTC No.

T123226

Grub Street ID

173736

Description

[2],16p.,plates : ill.,port. ; 8°.

Note

With an additional titlepage, engraved

A re-issue of the 1706 edition.